| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 768 - This son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon becomes King of the Franks | Charlemagne | 81%
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| 774 - The above mentionned King puts an end to this Kingdom that had been created in 568 in Italy | Lombard | 73%
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| 732 - This battle is fought between the Frankish forces under the mayor of the palace Charles Martel and the Ummayad army led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus | Tours | 69%
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| 717 - A one-year siege by the Umayyad Caliphate against this capital city begins. It will end with the Umayyads withdrawing and lead to significant changes within the Islamic world | Constantinople | 60%
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| 756 - Abd al-Rahman, a prince of the deposed Umayyad royal family, refuses to recognize the authority of the Abbassid caliphate and becomes the independent Emir of this city | Cordoba | 49%
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| 793 - This Northumbrian abbey is raided by the Vikings, which traditionally marks the beginning of the Viking Age | Lindisfarne | 48%
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| 750 - This Islamic caliphate assumes authority over the Muslim empire from the Umayyads. The centre of the Islamic world that was previously Damascus shifts to Baghdad | Abbassid | 43%
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| 731 - This Benedictine monk of the Kingdom of Northumbria writes an Ecclesiastical History of the English People | Beda Venerabilis | 43%
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| 751 - This Byzantine Exarchate in Italy falls to the Lombards | Ravenna | 34%
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| 711- The Moorish general Tariq ibn Ziyad begins the conquest of this Visigothic Christian territory | Hispania | 26%
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| 723 - This Byzantine emperor, who put an end to the Twenty Years' anarchy, forbids the veneration of icons | Leo III | 17%
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| 718 - This leading figure of the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire leaves Wessex | Boniface | 13%
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| 721 - This battle sees the victory of the army led by the Duke Odo of Aquitaine over the Umayyad army led by Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, Governor of Al-Andalus | Toulouse | 10%
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